The Person at the Crossroads: A Philosophical Approach

James Beauregard · Giusy Gallo · Claudia Stancati

Sep 2020 · Vernon Press

About this ebook

‘The Person at the Crossroads: A Philosophical Approach’ brings together scholars from around the world who share a common interest in the nature and activity of the human person. Personhood is examined from a variety of perspectives, both philosophical and theological, drawing on the rich traditions of both Western and Eastern thought. Readers will find themselves on a journey through the works of past and current scholars including, Confucius, Augustine, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Horace Bushnell, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michael Polanyi, Rudolf Carnap, Karol Wojtyla, Erazim Kohak, and many other authors who touch upon the personalist tradition and the human person. This volume will be of particular interest to readers interested in the nature of the human person, as well as philosophy and theology undergraduate and graduate students and professors teaching in these areas. 

About the author

James Beauregard is a Lecturer in the psychology doctoral program at Rivier University, Nashua, New Hampshire, USA, where he teaches Neuropsychology, Biological Bases of Behavior, Psychology Health Care Ethics and Aging. His research interests are in the fields of bioethics, neuroethics, and personalist philosophy, including the intersection of these two areas as they impact our understandings of personhood. He is a member of the Spanish Personalist Association and is on the board of directors of the International Conference on Persons.

Giusy Gallo is an Adjunct Professor of Philosophy of Language at the University of Calabria, Italy. She obtained the National Scientific Qualification to function as Associate Professor in Philosophy of Language. She has been the managing editor of the journal ‘Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio’ since 2009. Her main research interest is the concept of practice between language and science in a semiological dimension, and its development in connection to social networks, creativity, and design.

Claudia Stancati is Associate Professor of Philosophy of Language, University of Calabria. Her main research subjects are Epistemology and History of Language’s Sciences, Language and Cognition, Language of Sciences, fields in which she has published books and papers in reviews and proceedings of national and international congresses. Currently, she is working on relationships between linguistics and sociology and in social ontology.